What is this service?
ThingLink is an authoring tool for interactive visual media. The platform enables instructors and learners to add clickable hotspots to various media types, including images, videos, 3D models, and augmented reality content. These interactive elements can link to additional information, websites, or multimedia resources, allowing the creation of branching scenarios and interactive learning tasks. So it can be used to invite learners to analyze, create, or view impacts when choosing different paths. ThingLink can support projects like virtual interactive tours of classrooms, museums, sites abroad, or university campuses. ThingLink can also be used to visualize processes, changes over time, differences across locations, or data within a group.
Who is eligible for this service?
Access is available to all active Middlebury students, faculty and staff via Canvas and directly through Thinglink.com with your Middlebury single-sign-on credentials.
How do I access Thinglink?
Thinglink can be accessed directly by logging in at https://www.thinglink.com/login. Click the Microsoft account icon button on the far left of the Login with third party services to activate your Middlebury account.
Thinglink can also be accessed through Canvas as an external tool in the course-level navigation or through assignments or modules.
NOTE: The Thinglink integration in Canvas provides limited interaction between Thinglink and Canvas features. When enabled through course navigation settings, the ThingLink course-level menu option will direct students and instructors to the ThingLink website where an account will be automatically generated, if one does not already exist.
When instructors select Thinglink as an external tool as an assignment submission type, the integration will make a connection to the ThingLink website. Note that this link in the assignment will not integrate with the course gradebook like other integrations, nor will it point students to a specific activity or folder in ThingLink. Rather, students will still need to navigate to the appropriate course group or assignment media.
As a result, instructors are recommended to provide a direct link to the ThingLink folder or scenario on any Canvas pages or locations where content needs to be shared..
How do I learn about this service?
How do I get help?
Use the Request Help with Thinglink button to the right side of this page for technical questions. For pedagogical support with Thinglink, schedule a consultation with a DLINQ team member.
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